Charter for Compassion is unveiled today

Today I signed on to the Charter for Compassion.

I’ve watched this develop for the last 20 months, starting from a TED wish, developing into a project that has involved many people from all major religions, to the unveiling today of the final product – the powerful four paragraph text of the Charter for Compassion.

Here is a link to the TED site page about Karen Armstrong and her wish project.

And here is a link to the Charter for Compassion.  I encourage you to look at the charter itself and the process by which it was created.  It has been a really cool journey.  Here is the YouTube video of the charter.

The coming together of the world’s major religions around a set of common beliefs holds in it the best promise I see for a more peaceful world.